Use of Consensus Methodology to Determine Candidate Items for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Classification Criteria.
Sindhu R JohnsonZsuzsanna H McMahanDavid DaikhRicard CerveraNathalie Costedoat-ChalumeauDafna D GladmanBevra H HahnFalk HiepeJorge Sánchez-GuerreroElena M MassarottiDimitrios T BoumpasKaren H CostenbaderDavid R W JayneThomas DörnerDiane L KamenMarta MoscaRosalind Ramsey-GoldmanJosef S SmolenDavid WofsyMartin AringerPublished in: The Journal of rheumatology (2018)
The NGT exercise resulted in 21 candidate SLE classification criteria. The next phases of SLE classification criteria development will require refinement of criteria definitions, evaluation of the ability to cluster criteria into domains, and evaluation of weighting of criteria.